Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Let's say you work at an organization that mostly caters to a middle and upper-class, white audience. Let's say you have a sincere interest in reaching and working with more ethnically, racially, and economically diverse audiences. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

This seems a little ungenerous to museums; while institutions may bestow more love upon wealthy, elderly donors than the general visiting public, museums have actively courted mass audiences for years. We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. Which community?

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

Here’s a curated transcript of Tweets from her talk, including the one above that she wanted everyone in the audience to tweet. Here’s what I learned from Nancy’s inspiring talk about data for good: How It Got Started. For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country.

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Learning Teen El Paso Homeless 50

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. This is your opportunity to shine the spotlight on the good work your nonprofit does, not to fill your audience’s inbox with screens and screens of text (no one’s going to read that!).

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Strategy Business Fundraising Campaign 119

Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. In the past, I''ve subscribed to the theory that an organization should target many different groups and types of people to serve a constellation of specific audiences across diverse affinities, needs, and interests.

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Museum Social Arts History 55

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. Focusing on youth audiences can lead to heavy and sometimes inappropriate self-censorship. The audio starts noisy.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

For instance, they may give to the homeless shelter because they feel bad for people who don’t have homes or because it feels good to help someone in need or because their favorite uncle was homeless for a while or because of all those reasons! This is a ready audience for altruistic appeals. People actually want a challenge.

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Hints People Giving Donation 132

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Because the Center’s site targets a number of audiences, such as patients, donors, and individuals seeking more information about these diseases, it’s important that their website serves a range of purposes. The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society works to improve the lives of homeless and in-need animals across the Ontario region.

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Websites Organization Nonprofit Game 52